Posts by kovarex

Friday Facts #71 - To the stars

Posted by Kovarex on 2015-01-30

Hello We released the 0.11.0 exactly 3 months ago. And here we are, 3 months later, still far from the stable release. Our estimate is still the same: just one more month until the stable. There are more reasons of this: It looks like the new wave of people coming to Factorio discovered many new problems. Many of these were in the game from the very early stage, but just haven't been detected until now. All the code written until 0.11 (2 and half years of work) needs to work in strictly deterministic manner now for the multiplayer. We started to cover all of the bugged areas by automated tests. Sometimes it takes 5 minutes to fix the bug, but another 2 hours to make the correct test for it. I hope it will pay off in the future. And last, but not least, lot of bugs have this kind of life-cycle:

Friday Facts #70 - The smooth FPS

Posted by Kovarex on 2015-01-23

Hello These weeks are quite quiet. We (Me and Kuba) are fighting the never ending wall of bugs, and Albert with Pavel (The graphics department) are doing the preparations of the 0.12 endgame graphics.

Friday Facts #68 - The trains

Posted by kovarex on 2015-01-09

Albert is back from Spain and Cube is back from vacation, so the Wube is not lonely. Once Tomas gets back from India and Robert moves here, the place will feel fully populated again :)

Friday Facts #67 - Happy new year

Posted by kovarex on 2015-01-02

I have to admit that the Factorio development is slowed down these days, but it is not stopped because it just can't stop. Or is it because we can't stop? I guess that we have come too far to give up who we are.

Friday Facts #66 - Merry christmas

Posted by kovarex on 2014-12-26

You would expect that we wouldn't have anything new during christmas, but you couldn't be more wrong, as the Factorio development never stops.

Friday Facts #64 - The plans

Posted by kovarex on 2014-12-12

Hello, we have a nice anniversary of the friday facts today, as we have one friday facts for every bit in the 64bit architecture address size. I believe this is the best time to show some of the 64 pixels per tile graphics experiments as well.

Friday Facts #63 - The endless struggle

Posted by kovarex on 2014-12-05

Hello, I'm turning 30 today. Few years ago, I was thinking, that I should achieve something great before I get 30. Now I work on Factorio, and I feel like this is the best position for me that could exist. I enjoy it very much and I feel that it also is the best learning experience I could hope for. I managed to not disappoint the younger me, and it makes me happy ... or maybe just less frustrated from the infinite queue of bugs waiting to be solved :)

Friday Facts #62 - The automation of Factorio

Posted by kovarex on 2014-11-28

Hello, Tomas is in India already, so the place is more empty again. The more empty it is, the harder we have to work to make for it :)

Friday Facts #56 - A lot of new stuff

Posted by kovarex on 2014-10-17

Hello, we have only 2 weeks left before the 0.11.0 release date. It is scheduled to 31. october. All the things in progress are starting approach the finish line, but as always before the release, it will be tight.There are quite a lot of things we want to deliver and multiplayer (mainly for lan and low ping games until 0.12 don't forget!) is one of those, not even mentioning the backlog of bugfixes we need to go through before the release.

Friday Facts #54 - Bug in bug reporting of other bug

Posted by kovarex on 2014-10-03

Hello, as you could get from the caption, the work during the week was pretty frustrating at times, but the more rewarding it felt when the problems were finally fixed. This time I decided to give you another peek to our different kind of bug battles.